kamdab - a.k.a. Kameron Ahler

OK, so here's the plan: Thailand, Cambodia, Italy, China, South Korea, and Mongolia in approximately five months. Life's too short to not get lost along the way, right? I'll meet up with Danielle (Dan) and Paula (Paul) in Thailand and then rough the rest on my own from China forward.

I don't know how often I'll have time to update this, but I will as much as I can - so bear with me. Shoot me a comment or email me, I'm sure I'll love to hear from you. I promise adventure, mishap, and embarrassment...and maybe requests for more $. Let's all hope it doesn't come to that.

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By kamdab
August 26th 2008

Sample Images North America » United States » California » San Luis Obispo

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Here are some sample images of my work... [View Full Entry]

By kamdab
April 1st 2008

OK, Well, Slight Change in Plans Asia » South Korea » Seoul

A lifetime of seedlings

Greetings. It's been 3 weeks since I last posted an entry. That's a long time for me. You may ask yourself, "Why, Kam? Why would you do that to us?" The simple answer is simply I'm lazy. A sloth? No. But lazy? Yes. Hopping continents has started to take it's toll on me. In any case, there's been some changes to my itinerary, and other stuff that happened in the past few weeks that some of you may find interesting. If you don't find it interesting, well...I don't know what to say. Sorry? Here's the dealio: I'm in Seoul. I've been [View Full Entry]

By kamdab
March 10th 2008

Seoul Part Deux Asia » South Korea » Seoul

Seoul Grand Park Zoo
Siberian Tiger skullery.

Well, I haven't really been paying attention to what I've been doing very much. Mostly b/c I've been enjoying it too much to stop and think about it. In any case, I'm going to try my best to recreate the past few days. A brief update: I successfully negotiated some WWOOFing (it took me 2.5 hours of strip poker, a swiss army knife, and a polaroid camera), I found the agency that does birth family reunification (and they told me I didn't have enough information on me to help me @ the time), and roughly figured out when I'm coming back [View Full Entry]

By kamdab
March 8th 2008

Out of Rhythm but I Still Got Seoul Asia » South Korea » Seoul

Admiral Yi Sun-si Statue
I can't remember who this guy is exactly, but his sword is big. Like, almost as big as he is.

Kamsa hamnida! It was an arduous battle, but I reached Seoul. It feels nice to be in my motherland. Nobody stares @ me like I'm sticking out like a sore thumb, even though I do look quite different than most Koreans (dress and face-wise). I've learned that most people think I am at least somewhat Japanese. This is blowing my mind. Seoul is on par, for me at least, with Rome. It's a huge city, but very well connected, clean, and despite there being the most people per square foot in an Asian metropolis, it doesn't feel overly crowded most of [View Full Entry]

American tourist spies on unsuspecting Korean

By kamdab
March 3rd 2008

Xi'an Xenanigans Asia » China » Shaanxi » Xi'an

Huaqing Hot Springs
Yes, it was pretty much this beautiful everywhere.

OOOOOK. So even though most of you haven't even read through the entirety of my last entry, which was pretty recently posted, I have decided to post my entry about Xi'an. Now, even though I wanted to spend more time in China than I am going to, I have decided it's better to head to Korea and try to WWOOF than to stay here (as cheap as it may be). So, sadly, this will be my last entry in China, for now. I am going to come back because my return flight to the states is from Beijing. But back to [View Full Entry]

By kamdab
March 1st 2008

Beijing (that's all) Asia » China » Beijing

Welcome to China
Lanterns are everywhere

Ni Hao! Figured I'd jump on here and post an entry about Beijing for anyone who still reads this. Since I last wrote I was in Italy, heading to Beijing. I flew into China on 2/25 and have since been in Beijing, but just recently got to Xi'an, where I have been for 2 days. I plan to post an entry about Xi'an when I am done here. For now, Beijing will have to do. Hope everyone is doing well in the States, and thanks for all the comments and messages from everyone, I appreciate it (probably more than you know). [View Full Entry]

By kamdab
February 22nd 2008

Running around Sicily & The Amalfi Coast Europe » Italy » Campania » Amalfi

Fish market via Palermo
Happiest purveyor Ive ever seen.

Caio everyone. It's your trusty blogger back for another epic entry. This time it will be covering almost all of our trip through Italy. Minus, of course, Rome and Naples. We haven't really had good internet access since leaving Naples. I am now back in Rome, where I'll be for the next few days before flying to China, and Dan was also here, but he left today for Barcelona (Espana). Since we last spoke (or you stared @ a computer screen while I paraded around the world) we have since gone to...in chronological order: Sicily (Palermo, Agrigento, Catania) and the Amalfi [View Full Entry]

By kamdab
February 13th 2008

Buongiorno from Italia Europe » Italy » Campania » Naples

Dan looking exceptionally suave

It's been a long time since I've last written, at least it seems like a while. In reality, it's only been a week I believe. Who knows? your time gets all messed up when you're traveling - it almost ceases to exist. Now wer'e getting all philosophical, so I'll move on. Anyway, the last time I write, we were still in Thailand, but heading out in a few days, and were intending to go to Chinese New Year's celebration in Chinatown, but we didn't because we were all feeling very lethargic and lazy, and also because we are so super lame. [View Full Entry]

By kamdab
February 6th 2008

Ko Tarutao In Its Magnanimous Entirety Asia » Thailand » South-West Thailand » Ko Tarutao Marine NP

The view from my hammock on Ao Pante Malaka

Sawatdee, everyone! Sawatdee means hello, not some Thai vulgarity, I promise - or do I… We are at present BACK in Bangkok @ Lily’s house. We arrived yesterday afternoon after some brutally long travel, but I’ll get to that later. Since the last blog I posted, we have since disappeared to one of Thailand’s National Marine Parks located west of the Thai-Malaysia border, Tarutao National Marine Park, for about a week and a half (10 days or so). I’m pumped on coffee, loads of green curry, and have a gang of time on my hands (we have two more days here [View Full Entry]

The distant green lights of Ko Tarutao @ night

One of the millions of small crabs that filter the sand

By kamdab
January 26th 2008

Ko Phangan and The Full Moon Party Asia » Thailand » Southern Thailand » Hat Yai

Sun rays from Hat Yao Beach
Incredible sight. Every day was like this. Dan and I's heads exploded on a regular basis.

Forwarning: I woke up feeling less than clever, and also unmotivated to post this blog, but I owe everything to you, the people, so here I am. It's been a while since I've posted, so this blog may be a blur and completely uninteresting as my memory has started to wane from the past week. Or, it may be mindblowing, nobody knows. I guess you'll know at the end. Ohhh. Suspense. Ko Phangan & The Full Moon Party Well, after taking a separate bus than Dan and Paul from the Cambodia-Thai border, I successfully navigated back to Lily's house in Bangkok. [View Full Entry]

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